Question: What is the difference between hypertension and high blood pressure, and what do blood pressure numbers mean? Answer: Well, hypertension and high blood pressure are two terms that are almost used interchangeably. What you have is a number above which you have a defined diagnosis -- at least that's how we tend to do this in medicine.
Stephen Hawking. Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (/ËstiËvÉn ËhÉËkÉªÅ/; born 8 January 1942) is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge.
Stephen Hawking in 2007. On April 20, 2009, a moment arrived that doctors had foretold for decades. Stephen Hawking, a scientist who overcame debilitating disease to become the worldâs most renowned living physicist, was on the cusp of death. The University of Cambridge released grim prognoses.